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Warm colour: In
printing, a colour with a yellowish or reddish cast.
Washup: The
process of cleaning the rollers, form or plate, and sometimes
the ink fountain of a printing press.
Waste Paper: Paper which has ended its immediate useful life, created before or after reaching the final consumer of the paper, or paper product.
Water Pollution: Introduction of foreign substances to a water source, either toxic to life forms or creating an oxygen demand, depriving indigenous life forms of oxygen and resulting in their death.
Waterless plate:
Printing plate that is printed on an offset press without
dampening solution.
Waterless printing: In offset, printing on a press using special
waterless plates and no dampening system.
Watermark: A
deliberate design or pattern in paper made by a dandy roll as
the stock passes through the wet end processes; a watermark
can be seen by holding the paper up to the light.
Web: A roll of
paper used in web or rotary printing.
Web press: A
press, which prints, on roll or web fed paper.
Well Managed Forest: Forests that are certified and audited to ensure they comply with environmentally sustainable practice and principles. Tropical hardwood and softwood trees are now grown in well managed forests.
Whiteness: A
description of both the total ammount and purity of white
light reflected from a surface. Often expressed as CIE Lab,
where figures are given for total refectance, red-green, and
blue-yellow hue.
Widow: In
composition, a single work in a line by itself, ending a
paragraph, or starting a page, frowned upon in good
typography.
Wind Generated Power: Non-polluting, wind-generated electricity helps remove more then 9.2 million pounds of carbon dioxide from the air - the equivalent of taking 750 cars off the road or planting 45,000 trees each year. Wind farms allow multiple uses of land, don't disturb wildlife, are visually less obtrusive and produce alternative sources of income to family farmers and other rural landowners.
Wire side: In
papermaking, the side of a sheet next to the wire in
manufacturing; opposite from felt or top side.
Wire-o binding: A
continuous double series of wire loops run through punched
slots along binding side of a booklet.
With the grain:
Folding or feeding paper into a press parallel to the grain of
the paper.
Woodcut: An
illustration in lines of varying thickness, cut in relief on
plank-grain wood, for the purpose of making prints.
Woodfree Papers: Term used to describe paper made from chemically produced pulp which does not contain lignin. A more precise description would be Lignin Free Paper.
Word processor: A
typewriter connected to a computerised recording medium to
input, edit and output data.
Work and tumble:
To print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from
gripper to back using the same side guide and plate to print
the second side.
Work and turn: To
print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from
left to right and print the second side using the same gripper
and plate but opposite side guide.
WORM: Acronym for
Write Once Read Many Times - a type of optical memory
device.
Wove paper: Paper
having a uniform unlined surface and a soft smooth finish.
Wrinkles: Creases
in paper occurring during printing. In inks, the uneven
surface formed during drying.
Wrong font: In
proof reading, the mark "WF" indicates a letter or figure of
the wrong size or face.
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